Fischer-Baum Simon, Benjamin Aaron S
Department of Psychology, MS-25, Rice University, P.O. Box 1891, Houston, TX, 77251, USA,
Psychon Bull Rev. 2014 Oct;21(5):1263-71. doi: 10.3758/s13423-014-0604-7.
Information about the order of items in a sequence can be conveyed either spatially or temporally. In the present investigation, we examined whether these different modes of presentation map onto compatible mental representations of serial order. We examined this issue in three immediate serial-recall experiments, in which participants recalled lists of letters in the temporal order in which they had appeared. Each letter in a to-be-remembered sequence was presented in a unique spatial position, with the order of these spatial positions progressing from either left to right or right to left. In this way, the visually presented lists contained both temporal and spatial order information. Recall of the temporal order information was more accurate with congruent spatial order information-that is, when the letters progressed from left to right, following the typical reading direction of English-than when the spatial order information was incongruent. These results suggest compatible representations of serial order when sequences are conveyed spatially and temporally.
序列中项目顺序的信息可以通过空间或时间来传达。在本研究中，我们考察了这些不同的呈现模式是否映射到关于序列顺序的兼容心理表征上。我们在三个即时序列回忆实验中考察了这个问题，在这些实验中，参与者按照字母出现的时间顺序回忆字母列表。要记忆的序列中的每个字母都呈现在一个独特的空间位置，这些空间位置的顺序从左到右或从右到左推进。通过这种方式，视觉呈现的列表包含了时间和空间顺序信息。当空间顺序信息一致时——也就是说，当字母按照英语的典型阅读方向从左到右排列时——对时间顺序信息的回忆比空间顺序信息不一致时更准确。这些结果表明，当序列通过空间和时间来传达时，存在关于序列顺序的兼容表征。
